Michelangelo, nonetheless, is one of the artists who gave rise to the notion of “late style”: the idea that the artist’s vision gets truer and more personal the older they get. So a show on ...
For all its transformations over the decades, Pistoletto’s work has maintained its focus on the fundamental dialectic ...
The finished tapestries, which were delivered to the Vatican in 1520, cost five times as much as Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings, and they inspired Bernard van Orley, working in Brussels ...
Michelangelo Pistoletto is an Italian painter, performance artist, and theorist. Best known for his innovative stainless steel paintings with mirror-like surfaces, he also produced pioneering ...
On Saturday, February 1st, at 11 AM, in the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace of Caserta, a free workshop for children aged ...
At the turn of the 16th century, Florence was the scene for "what may have been the ultimate clash of the titans of Western ...
Some in the artist community were circumspect, including Donato Bramante, the architect of St Peter’s, who warned against employing him. 5. Michelangelo did almost all of the painting in the ...
The Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary will transport visitors to Renaissance Italy and commemorate the 550th ...
From Michelangelo’s sculptures such as Atlas ... The most beguiling of them are as ethereal as her greatest paintings are weighty. Intertwined figures, often sexually charged, are shown in ...
In The Story of Art, EH Gombrich mentions that Michelangelo initially refused the commission for frescoes in the vault. “He was convinced that this thankless commission had been palmed off on to ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the northern Italian city of Biella, artist Michelangelo Pistoletto lives in his grandest idea ...
Arte Povera artist Michelangelo Pistoletto has created a new version of Caravaggio's Nativity , stolen in 1969 from the Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Sicily, to pay tribute to the lost masterpiece.